Diamond Daggers
Stephen Wall, 28 June 1990
“... private life only goes to show, he’s not an involving man. The novels she writes under the name Barbara Vine seem to be Ruth Rendell’s out-patient department, and certainly in Gallow-glass little Joe – as his enigmatic friend Sandor calls him – looks like a deserving candidate for community care. Illegitimate and unlovingly fostered, he doesn’t ... ”